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Feeling Of Bugs In Skin, Taking Medication For Mental Illness. Can You Help?

hi my partner as got a mental illness she takes medication every day and nite for it but she keeps saying she as got bugs in her skin and keeps trying to get them out but i keep telling her there is nothing there but she keeps saying the people in her head are telling her they are i dont know what to do she wont go to a and e with me can u help me please
Fri, 12 Oct 2012
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This condition is Delusional perceptive disorder if there is no skin infection. Please take one antipsychotic in low dose like olanzapine, trifluperazine&trihexiphenidyl combination and antidepressant like fluoxetine,escitalopram with low dose anxiolytic like clonazepam.
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Feeling Of Bugs In Skin, Taking Medication For Mental Illness. Can You Help?

This condition is Delusional perceptive disorder if there is no skin infection. Please take one antipsychotic in low dose like olanzapine, trifluperazine&trihexiphenidyl combination and antidepressant like fluoxetine,escitalopram with low dose anxiolytic like clonazepam.